On March 23, 2016, Xu Jin arrived in Hangzhou in a hurry and met with Portugal's Indian Governor Kapur the next day. This Governor Kapur, nicknamed "Great Conqueror", was about fifty years old. He was nearly two meters tall, with deep eyes and a clasped nose, and his face was hard and clear, so he was obviously not Yi.

But so what?

As the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves and come to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. No matter whether you are a dragon or a tiger, you must be honest and curled up. In the world where the strong prey on the weak, the boss will be the boss if you have the biggest fist.

Compensation of five million taels of silver was the first condition proposed by Xu Jin at the negotiating table. Pires, who was in charge of the translation, suddenly turned green. Governor Cabrer also frowned after hearing Pires' translation and said a lot in Portuguese.

"Mr. Xu, Governor Kabul said just now that he spent half a year to come to the Ming Dynasty, and he was sincerely negotiating with you. I hope you can also show enough sincerity. Five million taels of silver is too much, completely beyond our ability to bear it." Pirez said carefully.

Xu Jin picked up the cup of small black tea with a sweet fragrance, took a sip, and said indifferently: "His Excellency Pirez, I gave up my vacation and took a carriage that I had been to Hangzhou from thousands of miles away for seven or eight days. Is this sincerity not enough?"

"But... the compensation for five million taels of silver is too much, and we can't afford it." Pires shrugged.

Xu Jin sneered: "When you occupied the Manlaga Royal City, you not only plundered five million silver dollars, but you have also colonized in Goa, Tianzhu for nearly twenty years. The plundered goods are worth more than tens of millions. The spices produced in the local area are probably going to make a fortune. Spices are extremely expensive luxury goods in your Europa."

Pires's face was slightly stiff and translated the original words to Cabool. After hearing this, the latter couldn't help but look at Xu Jin in surprise. This young Ming official knew so much. It seemed that it was not easy to fool. He squeaked in Portuguese.

Pires translated: "Mr. Xu, Governor Kabble said, he admires you for your knowledge, but we have traveled across the ocean and consumed a lot. It is not as much as you said. We really can't get five million taels of silver. However, in order to express our sincere apology, we are willing to compensate the Ming Dynasty for one million taels of silver."

Wei Yuan, the governor of Zhejiang who was sitting next to Xu Jin, couldn't help but curl his lips and said, "One million silver?" What about sending beggars? Last year, Lord Xu went to Japan and transported more than five million taels of silver. These red-haired ghosts are really stingy!

Xu Jin said calmly: "His Excellency Pires, then please tell Governor Kabre that there are nearly 5,000 soldiers in your side who have been captured by us. Oh, including His Excellency Pires, you are also our side's prisoner. Now that you can stand here as a translator, it does not mean that you are free!"

Pires's face couldn't help but tremble, and he translated Xu Jin's original words to Kapur as if he was lost. After hearing this, the latter's expression suddenly became gloomy.

Speaking of which, before Hong Kong Island last year, the Ming army captured more than 2,000 Westerners, most of whom were Portuguese. In the Battle of the Royal City of Malacca last year, the Ming army captured more than 1,000 Portuguese soldiers. Then Governor Kabul was defeated by Yu Dayou, and more than 1,000 soldiers were captured, all of which had been more than 5,000.

Portugal is just a small country with a population of hundreds of thousands, and the army under the whole country is only tens of thousands. When it was established in India, only 2,000 soldiers were dispatched. Later, the strategy of intermarriage with the locals was adopted, which "crossed" tens of thousands of people, slightly increasing the proportion of the Portuguese in the local population.

Just last year, nearly 10,000 Portuguese people were lost to the Ming army, half of which were killed in battle and half captured. This blow was heavy and had seriously affected the stability of the Grape Indian colony. Without enough manpower, Portugal could not suppress the local indigenous people and might even lose this colony.

It is precisely because of this that Governor Kabul came to the Ming Dynasty for negotiations in such a hurry. One of the purposes was to redeem the captured soldiers as soon as possible. Therefore, Xu Jin's move was to seize Kabul's fatal hole!

Governor Kabre discussed with several negotiators around him for a while, and finally said that he could only take out three million silver at most, of which one million taels were converted in the form of goods.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened trade in seas, Westerners will be the important target of trade. Xu Jin did not want to force it too much, and finally agreed, but two conditions were attached, namely the smelting technology and shipbuilding technology of the Westerners. Kabul must send skilled craftsmen to the Ming Dynasty to teach these two technologies to the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty. He was not allowed to leave until the latter had fully mastered them.

For Xu Jin, technology is priceless. If the reduction of two million in compensation can be exchanged for Westerners' smelting and shipbuilding technology, it will definitely be worth the money. Not to mention anything else, smelting technology is very, very important for the manufacturing of steam engines, and it may make the Ming Dynasty less than a few years or even more than ten years to build a steam engine.

Kabl obviously also understood the importance of technology. If he could afford five million taels of silver, he would probably reject Xu Jin at once. Unfortunately, he really couldn't afford the huge sum of money now and was eager to redeem the soldiers. After some bargaining, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

Finally, Portugal compensated the Ming Dynasty two million taels of silver, plus cargo worth 500,000 taels of silver, as well as the two technologies of smelting and shipbuilding. The Ming Dynasty released all the captured grape soldiers and returned some warships.

After the two sides reached a peace talks, the second step was trade negotiations, which involved tariffs and exchange rates, which were relatively complicated. Fortunately, since the implementation of the Haitong Trade Development Council last year, the Ministry of Revenue has agreed on a specific charter, and these specific matters have been left to the people below to negotiate, but Xu Jin does not need to do it himself.

After three days of negotiations, the trade agreement between the Ming and Portugal was finally finalized. The decisive Governor Cabul immediately set off his sail and rushed back to transport the silver to redeem the people.

In order to show sincerity, Xu Jin returned two six-masted ocean-going ships to Kapur, who purchased thousands of kilograms of black tea before leaving. It is estimated that in the near future, the Hekou black tea, known as the queen of tea, will become popular throughout Europe.
Chapter completed!